Ok, who's had to deal with this and what did you do to alleviate this?



GP is sending me to a hand specialist.  Said it could be a corticosteroid shot to surgery.



No clue how it developed and its on my non dominate hand.



Wake up in the morning and can't straighten one of my fingers until a lot of work and loosen things up.

I have trigger finger on my right ring finger. I have to be careful if I grip something just the right way and it locks. Its the tendon at the base of the finger where it slides into the tendon sheath. My doc told me to live with it because if the surgery goes wrong my hand would be fucked up. Its more an annoyance than painful.

When it locks, I have to massage the tendon until it pops back out.

My mother had this condition.  She got a shot of some sort (cortisone maybe?), but ultimately got the surgery where they snipped one of the tendons.  This made it more bettah.

I had "trigger finger" of my right middle finger. It came on quickly and got to the point I could not use my right hand due to the pain.

I had surgery to correct it and after a year I had about 90% function. (I could not make a fist and have that finger fully closed.) After about 3 years I have about 99.5% back in that finger.

I now have it happening to my right ring finger. Not the pain but the finger sticks sometimes and prevents my ability to make a fist the first attempt.

It is annoying, but not yet problematic. It was "inflamed" at first and I got an injection only once to fix that.

Getting old is not for sissies!

Oh yea, it's painful.  On a scale of 1 to 10 it's about a 5 or a 6.  I've been given different non steroid anti inflammatory meds that did not work.  Steroids made it feel better but it's not something I could take for more than 5 days.



Joy.



Thanks guys.  Looks like I'll see the hand specialist and get the load down and update.



 

My father had it several years before he died.  I'd never heard of it.  Shortly thereafter, I ended up getting it in a couple of fingers.  I had it off and on for two or three years, but it went away and I haven't had it happen for years.  My dad had surgery on his with no complications.  Easy surgery, easy to get over in his case.

I'm a Physical Therapist, and have attempted to treat this condition conservatively but it usually requires surgery if its bad enough.

I've actually developed it in my own right index finger (my actual 'trigger finger') so I've all but stopped doing hands-on soft tissue massage because I think that's what is aggravating it.

I'll get the tendon snipped if I have to, because I don't want it to get worse and impede my ability to use my weapon if I need to.

If I grip something to hard for to long my right ring finger will lock up and I have to physically unlock it. Not much pain but it Is a pain when riding bikes and I try to ungrip or brake, If i move my finger every minute it keeps it from happening though

Two fingers on my right hand.  Had injections and they worked for 6 months.  Wife had surgery on her thumb, but it really isn't much better.  Getting old sucks.

Wrist but not finger

I developed a mild case after a summer pipeline job years ago. It comes and goes, depending on how much I abuse my hands. Never painful, just annoying.  NSAIDs seem to help.

Thanks everyone.



Got my cortisone shot yesterday.  He give me a 50% cortisone and 50% lidocaine.  It hurt like hell when he poked me and when he dumped all that fluid into my hand.  Told me to flex it to get the liquid flowing.  OMG.  An hour later I got about 80% of my mobility back.



They recommended a return visit in two weeks for eval and second shot if needed.



First thing out of this guys mouth, I'm gonna need to perform surgery.  That's got a 100% success rate.



I asked so what other options are there, he didn't like it but said a cortisone shot is a 60% success rate.



I and said shoot me up and see.



So far so good.  I still need to wrap it to fully straighten it out but it doesn't hurt after 10 minutes either in that position.  I'm thinking some PT and it should be better and if needed the second shot should finish the job.  But holy hell I didn't expect my hand to swell up so much either right after the shot.



Thanks again.